The Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Verbe et Lumiere-Vigilance co-organized a seminar entitled, "Lessons from the Darkness: Euthenasia, Banality of Evil, Justice, Early Warning" hosted by Argentine Foreign Ministry. The meeting was held under the auspices of UNESCO, the Argentine Presidency, Bicentenary Committee and Foreign Office.

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman opened the conference with the hope that the proceedings would “unify the energies of governments, international organizations and civil society to impede genocides and grave human rights violations continuing around the world".

Drawing on this proposal, the Centre's International Relations Director, Dr.Shimon Samuels, noted "the inter-parliamentary campaign - 'The Responsibility to Prevent' - to bring Iran before the International Criminal Court for violating the United Nations Genocide Convention.

Also present at the conference were diplomatic representatives of Angola, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico and Poland. Germany inaugurated the exhibition, " Nazi Euthanasia of the Handicapped: Hitler's First Victims", produced by Olokaustos, the Venice-based Association for Historical Studies.

The Centre paid tribute to four laureates, honoured for their resistance to the Nazis and against the Argentine military dictatorship:

—Rosa Roisinblit, for the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
—Sara Rus, Holocaust survivor, for the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
—Pestazlozzi Highschool, founded by anti-Nazi Germans in 1934
—Tzedaka Foundation, for social assistance to Holocaust survivors

Over sixty high school students participated throughout the day. Libertad Synagogue Rabbi, Simon Moguilevsky, gave the invocation in memory of all victims of terrorism and genocide.

The conference was closed by the Foreign Ministry's Director for Human Rights, Eduardo Acevedo Diaz with a vote of thanks from the Centre's Latin American Director, Sergio Widder.

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